Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 12:06 PM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 12:06 PM CST (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 301806 SVRMOB ALC097-301900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1206 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY INCLUDING BAYS...INLETS...AND INLAND WATERWAYS AT 1203 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT SOUTHEAST TO NEAR FOWL RIVER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN MOBILE AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 30, 9:24 AM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
920 AM CST TUESDAY MAR 30 1993
TIME EVENT
0915 PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT WIGGINS IN
STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI BY WIGGINS PD.Special weather statement, Mar 30, 9:34 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-301625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 935 AM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA... AT 925 AM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL STRETCHED FROM 60 MILES SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY NORTHWEST INTO COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COASTS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. ALSO...BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE STORMS PASS BY. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND (TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 10:30 AM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-301725- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1035 AM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA... AT 1025 AM CST...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL STRETCHED FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY NORTHWEST THROUGH PENSACOLA AND MOBILE AND CONTINUED INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COASTS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. ALSO...BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE STORMS PASS BY. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM FOR THE REMDAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 12:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.